Welcome to the Caribbean Drum Circle

Joseph Peck presents
The Caribbean Drum Circle Music Enrichment Program

Grades 1-2: Students explore music as a language through interactive experiences using percussion instruments (shakers, cowbells, drums, steel drums), call and response, geometric shapes, and movement. Each week students will learn about a historical figure from the Caribbean/steel drum art form and a new vocabulary word. Through playing and mimicking rhythmic patterns, responding to start and stop cues, and playing with proper hand and stick technique students will learn the basic rhythms of a steelband engine room. This Caribbean musical journey will give students invaluable life skills for relating and help them gain a greater sense of musicality with confidence. The final class will give students an opportunity to perform a mini-concert for their peers, teachers, and parents.

Grades 3-6: Using steel drums, tamboo-bamboo, and other various percussion instruments students will form a Caribbean drum circle band in which they learn afro- caribbean rhythms, participate in call and response activities, and create and perform their own original rhythmical music compositions. Students will listen to a different pre- recorded musical example of Caribbean music each week. In addition, each week they will learn about a distinguished historical figure who has contributed to the development of the steel drum instrument and/or Caribbean music art form. The enrichment program will conclude with students giving a concert performance demonstrating their ability to perform with proper hand and stick technique, collectively and individually with rhythmic and melodic accuracy, and to play in sync with the beat of the music. This rich musical experience will transform students, giving them a greater sense of confidence, focus, and the ability to team play with one another.

* This program can be adapted for high school and adult students.

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Testimonials

Mariane KarouJoseph Peck’s sensitive touch coupled with his ability to listen creates music from beyond time and space. The overtones stimulate energy flow, penetrate and resonate throughout every cell in the human body. They are deeply healing and bring listeners back into harmony and their most natural state of being. I use his exquisite music to take people into deep meditation and fluid movement because it’s so effective and magical!

Elizabeth D. KennedyJoseph Peck, Musician and Educator: In terms of his ability to share his artistry with students and to engage them in music making, Joseph Peck is exceptional. He combines great musical talent with a calm and respectful manner towards students that brings out the best in them. Joseph has successfully collaborated with students of all ages and ability levels, from lower elementary school to high school students, from students in special education to students in the gifted program.